Rebel to Redeemed…Sharing HIS Kind of Love
With today being the twenty-first anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks I wanted to find a song about the event. Alan Jackson wrote Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning) about those tragic events. He wrote it in October 2001 and said the lyrics came to him “while he was sleeping.” A few weeks later he debuted the […]
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What a Day that will be (When My Jesus I Shall See) is an upbeat song and often performed on the Gaither Homecoming Videos. The song was written by Jim Hill. He studied to become a professional singer and in the 1940s joined the Golden Keys Quartet as both manager and tenor. He wrote “What a Day That Will Be” […]
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They’ll Know We Are Christians is a short chorus which reminds us to show God’s love. Father Peter Scholtes was inspired in the 1960s by John 13:35. He wrote the song for an ecumenical event. Hymnary.org says: “At the time, he was leading a youth choir out of the church basement and was looking for an appropriate song for a […]
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Jehovah-‘Ez-Lami means the Lord my strength The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.My heart leaps for joy, and with my song I praise him Psalm 28:7
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Come to Me, Come to Me was written by Elisha Hoffman. Hoffman was of German descent and learned about music from his parents. During his family’s daily worship time, music was an important part of the service. During this time he developed a love for sacred music and a belief that music was “as natural a function of the soul […]
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Come As Ye Are Ye Who Are Troubled was written by Haldor Lillenas. Lillenas was born in Stord Island, Norway in November 1885. He immigrated to the United States where he studied music. He pastored churches in Califronia and Indiana. He married Bertha Mae Wilson, a songwriter like himself, and they became elders in the Church of the Nazarene. He […]
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Come As You Are is a hymn written by Deirdre Brown. Brown is an Australian sister, composer, teacher and liturgist who wrote the hymn in a folk style. The hymn was released in 1986 by Spectrum Publications. The song has been published in several hymn books but now seems to be out of print. Australian Carmelite friar Paul Gurr OCarm […]
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How Deep the Father’s Love for Us was released by Selah. The song was written by Stuart Townsend and has a 1995 copyright. It reminds us of God’s love for us and Jesus sacrifice on the cross.
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Back to the Garden is a contemporary Christian song performed by Crowder. The official music video was released in June 2017. The song is on the album American Prodigal. David Wallace Crowder performs as Crowder and has a solo career since 2012. He was the lead vocalist of the David Crowder Band from 1996 until it dissolved in 2012.
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My Faith Looks up to Thee was written by Ray Palmer. He was born in Rhode Island in 1808 and is often considered to be one of America’s best nineteenth-century hymn. He was a popular preacher and author, writing original poetry and translating hymns. He wrote the hymn shortly after completing college while he was teaching in 1830. He said […]
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What wondrous love is this? Was published in 1811 and considered a Christian folk hymn. It was very popular during the Second Great Awakening. It was first published in the camp meeting songbook A General Selection of the Newest and Most Admired Hymns and Spiritual Songs Now in Use in Virginia. Most sources attribute the tune to “The Ballad of […]
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Salvation Unto Us Has Come was written by Paulus Speratus. He was born in 1484 in Swabia, part of Medieval Germany. He often styled himself as “a Rutilis” or “von Rötlen” leading to the belief he may have been born of nobility. By 1518, he served as a preacher in Bavaria. He was one of the first […]
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The Day of Resurrection was originally written in Greek. St. John Damascene, known also as John of Damascus, was born somewhere around AD 655 and died around AD 745. Some historians believe he may have lived to over 100 but we do not know for sure. According to tradition, he was a monk at the St. Sabbas Monastery. He is […]
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Lamb of God was written and made popular by Twila Paris. The song is copyrighted 1985 by Straightway music. Twila Paris is a contemporary Christian music singer, songwriter, author and pianist. She has released twenty-two albums and had thirty-three #1 singles on Christian radio since she began her ministry in 1980. She released her first album in 1965 as a […]
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Lord Take My Hand and Lead Me was written by Julie Katharina von Hausmann. She was born in 1826 in Riga {now in Latvia}. Her father was a teacher and after he went blind, she cared for him until his death. She then went to live with her sisters in Germany, Southern France and St. Petersburg, Russia. Julie never married […]
Read more Christ the Life of all the Living was written by Ernst C. Homburg. Homburg was born in 1605 in Germany. He often wrote love and drinking songs before a family illness led to his conversion to Christianity. His poetry then turned more serious and he wrote hymns which expressed his faith and helped to strengthen his own walk with the […]
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Rejoice the Lord is King was written by Charles Wesley. He wrote the song Easter and Ascension in six stanzas. It was first published John Wesley’s Moral and Sacred Poems and again the text in Charles Wesley’s Hymns for our Lord’s Resurrection. The tune was composed by John Darwall and first used as a setting for Psalm 148.
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You Are My King (Amazing Love) was written by Billy James Foote. Phillips, Craig & Dean released it on the 2001 album Let My Words Be Few. The chorus uses lyrics and melody from Charles Wesley’s hymn, “And Can It Be”. Newsboys and Chris Tomlin have also covered the song.
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Revelation Song is adapted from Revelation 5. The song was written by Jennie Lee Riddle. It was first released on May 5, 2009 on the album Fearless by Phillips, Craig and Dean. Band member Randy Phillips explained why the trio recorded the song: “This song captures the moment of looking up into Heaven, peeling back the curtain of eternity so […]
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Earth and All Stars was written by Herbert Brokering. He was born in 1926 and a Lutheran pastor, teacher, author of over 40 books, poet and hymn writer. He died in 2009. The tune to Earth and All Stars is the same tune used for Brokering’s other well-known hymns, “Alleluia! Christ Is Risen.” The tune was composed by David […]
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